By The Associated Press
December 20, 2007
Top House and Senate procurers of spending "earmarks," according
to a preliminary review of fiscal 2008 spending bills by the
nonpartisan group Taxpayers for Common Sense:
HOUSE:
John Murtha, D-Pa., $161.9 million.
C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., $161.1 million.
Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., $136.8 million.
SENATE:
Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $773.6 million.
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, $501.9 million.
Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., $429.5 million.
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